we are told, in that district, censured Maximin’s edict of 308 as low, oppressive, superfluous, and absurd: they thought it too much of a good thing1. Nay, at Alexandria, the very home of neoplatonism, the pagans themselves, with almost a modern indignation against intolerance, concealed the Christians in their houses, and sacrificed all rather than betray them2. There was not a man in all Alexandria, whose son or daughter, brother or bosom-friend, was not a Christian. It was not likely that they